Psalm 44:6

Translations

Modern

For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword save me.

Traditional

For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

Literal

For not in my bow do I trust, and my sword will not save me.

Latin

Non enim in arcu meo sperabo, et gladius meus non salvabit me:

Original

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English

For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword save me.

Notes

Psalms 44:4–8

God’s people feel confident about his mighty acts; he was with them in the past, and he is their king in the present.

Psalms 44:1–26

This national lament after a defeat in battle continues the tone of the previous two psalms. It reflects on an unspecified moment in Israel's history and calls on God for salvation. The people:

recite God's past acts of rescue (Psalm 44:1–3),
recognize God's power to save (Psalm 44:4–8),
describe their humiliation in exile (Psalm 44:9–16),
claim their innocence and lament the injustice of their current situation (Psalm 44:17–22), and
cry for vindication (Psalm 44:23–26).

Theme notes and profiles

Complaints Nehemiah’s Confidence in God Trusting God in the Psalms

Related verses

Psalm 20:7
Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
Hosea 1:7
Yet I will have compassion on the house of Judah, and I will save them—not by bow or sword or war, not by horses and cavalry, but by the LORD their God.”
1 Samuel 17:47
And all those assembled here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD’s, and He will give all of you into our hands.”
Psalm 33:16–17
No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.

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